Kali Mahadevi

Kali is the destructive side of the Great Goddess Mahadevi, created for the sole purpose of annihilating the asura demons that plague her kind. Since her first victorious battles, in which she flooded the world with blood and trampled Shiva to death (he used the Negative Energy plane to ressurect himself, beating Tenebrous to this by eons), she has broadened her portfolio, giving life and taking it away. She represents the Terrible Mother archetype, the malevolent side of the anima, and the negative side of the female archetype. She sponsors thugee assassins and opium farmers. She is pure life and pure death, the mother of bones.

Kali craves only destruction, and the life that allows it. Her goals always involve creating the chaos that comes from live and death, filling worlds with children only to set them against one another so that she can reclaim their souls and send them back out to begin again. To her, all living things are mayflies that only truly live if they are dying. The constant, tumultuous, uneasy balance between yin and yang is her only joy. The universe, and all living flesh, is a puddle that is only beautiful when it splashes.

The only constant is the skull, an artifact that lasts long after the flesh has decayed as a symbol of her triumph. She collects them as records of her conquests, so the caverns of her home seem to consist of nothing but laterally symmetrical ivory orbs. When the planes of madness known as Pandemonium were first stirred from the milk of precreation, the Goddess was there, sowing them with enchanted skulls for later generations to find.

As a devi, Kali is energy incarnate, alive with the power of the multiverse. Asuras are void, emptiness who hunger for the warmth of the circle of creation. She seeks to increase the total amount of multiversal energy and slay those who would drain it and threaten existence.

Her servants are the dakini, her flesh-eating handmaidens. Her realm is also populated with beholders, penaggalan, yochlol, xorn, darbas, rakshasas (in disguise), mariliths, flameskulls, maruts, mimirs, fetches, fireshadows, vargouilles, and hordes of fanatical petitioners.